LETTER: NY SAFE Act and its supporters must go

The NY SAFE Act, rammed through under cover of darkness under the auspices of a fraudulent message of necessity and signed into law by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, is repellent to the fundamental core of a key provision of the Bill of Rights.

The law is facially unconstitutional but still has been upheld in both state and federal courts.

NY SAFE fails to protect the safety of all New Yorkers. It criminalizes possession of very common firearms that are very uncommonly used in crimes. In New York, approximately 10 people each year are murdered with rifles of all types.